SEIZURE OF FOOD
JUSTIFIED IN WARTIME. BRITISH REPLY TO RUSSIA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received November 2, 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 1. . The Minister of Economic Warfare (Mr R. Cross), broadcasting, gave what is tantamount to a reply to Russia’s protest against the inclusion of food on the British conditional contraband list. “The blockade is one of our most powerful weapons,” he said, “particularly to-day when whole nations, not only armies, are mobilised for war. In our considered opinion the treatment of food as conditional contraband is an essential element of economic warfare, which would be seriously weakened without it. To except certain goods would merely be to prolong the war. “Of total seizures thus far about 14 per cent, could normally he classified as,foodstuffs, of which 9 per cent, contains fats and oils which could he used by Germany for munitions. The remainder intercepted, namely, 86 per cent., could be used for war purposes. “Prolonging the war unnecessarily is incomparably crueller than exercising economic pressure.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 2 November 1939, Page 10
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